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Hugo - Nebula Anthology 1993
- Publication date
- 1993
- Topics
- hugo, nebula, vinge, fire upon the deep, cdrom
- Collection
- opensource
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 33.3M
About the anthology
WHAT'S IN IT
In brief...- All the Hugo® nominated novels in full text
- Special version of A Fire Upon the Deep with almost 500K of detailed hypertext annotations by Vernor Vinge
- All the Hugo-nominated short fiction
- All the Nebula-nominated short fiction
- Four Nebula-nominated novels, including the winner and the 94 winner
- All the Hugo winners, including both Hugo winning novels and the Nebula winning novel!
- All the Hugo-nominated pro artworks
- Portfolios from most of the Hugo-nominated pro artists
- Samples from Hugo-nominated fan writers, fanzines and fan artists
- Writing samples from all the nominees for the Campbell award for best new writer of the year
- Volumes I through IV of the rec.humor.funny TeleJokeBook series
- Information on fandom, WorldCons, ConFrancisco and the awards
- A Hugo ballot and information on how to vote
- An ESF ballot for our own award
- Author blurbs, bios and bibliographies
Plus the following supplemental material:
- Video clips of authors introducing stories
- Author photos
- Illustrations
- A Multimedia presentation for MS Windows
- Archives of Hugo-winning SF information and discussion
- Let's Hear it for the Deaf Man -- non-fiction Hugo-nominee
- Author's reading of start of China Mountain Zhang
The original publisher's prices to obtain all this material add up to well over $200 -- if you can still get it.
The world's first major eBook
I believe this CD is now a piece of history, as the world's first major eBook project using current fiction. At the time it was the largest anthology of current fiction ever published in one volume, and it may retain that title even today. Prior ventures were small or featured either unpublished writers or public domain works. This anthology featured novels that in most cases had not yet come out in paperback.WHAT FORMAT IS IT IN?
The CD-ROM is in a special format for the multimedia presentation (Windows or Mac), but also have the text files in Microsoft RTF format and the images in JPEG or GIF format. We'll include the source and binaries to programs to translate RTF format into plain ASCII, enhanced ASCII and other formats. Most word processors can read this format already. (Enhanced ASCII is ASCII with overstrikes to provide underlining and bold face. It's easy to remove the overstrikes if they are a problem.)Translators are available on the net to map RTF to troff. Most Mac and PC word processors can map RTF to Adobe PostScript.
The CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format as well as Macintosh HFS format. (One CD-ROM has both formats.)
However, we feel that there are problems with the Macintosh presentation. The book reader is poor and to read the annotated Fire Upon the Deep you must read the RTF files with an RTF compatible word processor. such as MS Word.
Realize that this is 1993 technology. CD-Roms were brand new and eBook publishing software barely existed. Don't expect 21st century stuff.
Note that today, you don't need to install the CD on Windows 95 or later to run it. On older versions of Windows 3.1 you need to do an install to get video for windows and other tools. Modern users can just run the multimedia viewer right from the CD, and load the anthology from there.
Information is available for those interested in paper jokebooks.
WHAT DOES IT COST?
While it was in print, the main CD was $29.95. The TeleJokeBook CD was a defective first edition which was missing all long dashes in many of the SF stories in the windows presentation. Full details on file sizes are available.Notes
Description ttext copied from https://www.netfunny.com/hugo.html
Individual files can be downloaded from https://ia601401.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/11/items/hugo_nebula_1993/hugo.zip
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- 2020-10-23 17:50:38
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- hugo_nebula_1993
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- 1993
